I am making a lighthouse cake for my sister's birthday this Sunday. It will be a carved cake covered in mmf. Any advice on how to make the top of the lighthouse and what materials to use? I am thinking of using a fondant/gumpaste mixture.

I made on it is in my pictures and I used gumpast - fondant. I found a cup the right size and wraped the fondant around it and let it dry and U rested the top on top of a bottle cap from a soda bottle for it to fold the shpae. hope this helps

I hadn't even thought of using a cup or bottle cap. thanks for the advice.

more advice here:
http://cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-36379-lighthouse.html

http://cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-135231-lighthouse.html

http://cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-41963-lighthouse.html (note Mac's offer of help!)

Thanks Doug! There is a lot of good advice there.